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The effect of violent crime on economic mobility

August 24, 2017

Building on the work of Partnership member Raj Chetty and his colleagues at the Equality of Opportunity Project, researchers at New York University found that low-income children growing up in areas where violent-crime rates were falling were more likely to move up the income ladder as adults.

In CityLab, Richard Florida summarizes and links to the study conducted by Patrick Sharkey and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa.

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